Arbi Elezi

Arbi Elezi Contact Information: Phone: - Email:-Location: Tirana, Albania LinkedIn | GitHub | Udemy Summary: Backend-heavy full-stack software engineer passionate about e-commerce and fintech, with extensive experience in .NET and JavaScript frameworks. Adept at cloud services, microservices architecture, and modern software development practices. Education: Epoka University, Tirana, Albania Bachelor / Master of Science in Computer Engineering Projects: Road Sign Detection System with SVM and OpenCV, Cell Image Segmentation with UNet (TensorFlow & Keras), Disaster Image Classification with Keras CNN & ResNet, Tumor Image Classification with Feature Extraction using MobileVNet CNN, C# Code Smell Augmentation with DeepSeek-R1, Llama-V2, TheStack Dataset, and RAG training. Technical Skills: C# (5+ Years) JavaScript (6+ Years) TypeScript (6+ Years) .NET Framework/Core (5+ Years) React.js (5+ Years) Node.js (3+ Years) Angular (>1 Years) Express.js (2+ Years) Spring Boot (>1 Years) AWS (5+ Years - EC2, S3, VPC, ECS, Athena, CloudWatch, API Gateway) Azure (>2 Years - APIM, Blob Storage, Functions) Heroku (2+ Years) PostgreSQL (5+ Years) MSSQL (1 Years) Docker (6 Years) Kubernetes (1 Years) Redis (4+ Years) RabbitMQ (4+ Years) PubNub (1 Years) NGINX (4+ Years) Linux (6+ Years) GIT (6+ Years) Tailwind CSS (3+ Years) Bootstrap (4+ Years) HTML/CSS (6+ Years) Firebase (5+ Years) Professional Experience: Software Developer | Ritech Group Jul 2019 – Present Orderoo (Jul 2019 – Dec 2020): Development and continuous improvement of a fintech savings application utilizing .NET Core and React.js, and Postgres with significant AWS EBS optimization enhancing system performance and reducing memory usage. Managed infrastructure and streamlined deployment using AWS and Azure DevOps. Deployed to EC2 linux servers as well for testing. Advantage (Sep 2019 – Dec 2020): Developed an Angular 8+ Dashboard for unifying the statistics from multiple AWS accounts for Services health. Utilized Okta for Authentication. Guac (April 2020 – Present): Development and continuous improvement of a fintech savings application utilizing .NET Core and React.js, and Postgres with significant AWS ECS optimization enhancing system performance and reducing memory usage. Managed infrastructure and streamlined deployment using AWS and Azure DevOps. Utilized many third party services such as Twilio and SendGrid for SMS and Email as well as Firebase Messaging for Push Notifications, as well as for Serverless Functions. It uses Redis as a cache. Instead of using a messaging queue it relies on Webhooks. Utilized Hangfire with Redis and Postgres for more than a hundred different background jobs with specific purpose. JoyFood (Dec 2019 – Mar 2020): Developed a Progressive Web Application (PWA) for onboarding users, integrating e-commerce and analytics tools, significantly boosting user engagement and onboarding speed. Utilized Google Analytics and Google Cloud Functions for Data Collections sent to PerfectServe (Apr 2023 – Mar 2024): Developed a healthcare communication platform using .NET and React. Leveraged RabbitMQ for efficient microservice communication, PubNub for reliable push notifications, and managed deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability and reliability. Utilized both Azure APIM and Azure Functions for specific email purposes. For others utilized AWS. Utilized Okta and KeyCloak for Authentication. Humanetics Car Data (Dec 2022 – Mar 2023): Migrated legacy VB6 applications to cloud infrastructure, enhanced authentication mechanisms with Azure APIM and Azure Functions, managed data storage with Azure Blob Storage and AWS API Gateway, and orchestrated services using Kubernetes for data collection, augmentation, and CI/CD integration with SonarQube and JFrog. Developed custom Okta related services with the Okta definition Language for custom Authentication and Authorization with different permission/roles, expirations and other rules. Utilized SAML2 and OIDC integration for various services unifying authentication for many services used. Guac (Mar 2024 – Present): Expanded the Guac fintech project with the development of multiple React web applications and numerous API services, as well as AWS ECS-based services focused on data collection and augmentation for AI training. Software Developer | Dayshape Company (Remote) (Part-Time) Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 Revamped a complex data reporting system in .NET and SQL Server, enhanced performance through rigorous testing and sophisticated SQL scripting for data optimization. Junior Software Developer | RAYONIT SH.P.K Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 Developed and led projects involving Angular and Spring Boot, fostering cross-functional team collaboration. Awards & Publications: First Place in IMPC (May 2016), Participant in Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (Jul 2016), Publications include "Recursion and Backtracking" and "Apache Kafka and Spring Boot (Consumer, Producer)." Languages: English, Albanian